Registration is from 5.00pm with presentations to start promptly at 5.30pm.
The Panel debate will be followed by a wine reception and networking until 7.30pm.
NESTA, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE

Come and see Oxford Entrepreneurs Special Relations Officer, Rajeeb Dey, take part in a panel debate!

Over the last 20 years, entrepreneurship has emerged as a major focus of research interest among academics, policymakers and educators. While much has been learned about how entrepreneurs can be identified and nurtured, there are still differing views about to what extent an entrepreneurial approach is innate – and how much is shaped by circumstance.

The answers to these questions are important – entrepreneurs can deliver social and economic benefits for all of us. Yet without a detailed understanding of how entrepreneurs are formed, how can we ensure that the UK has a culture that supports entrepreneurs? Crucially, how can we be sure that we have the right educational environment to encourage and support the entrepreneurial efforts of our young people from the earliest age?

Join us on Thursday 12th June for a lively panel debate to launch Professor Elizabeth Chell’s The Entrepreneurial Personality: A Social Construction, a timely look at how our entrepreneurial potential can be catalysed or not by the cultural, economic and business environment around us. Elizabeth Chell will open the discussions by presenting findings from her research on entrepreneurs. John Bates will respond and will suggest an agenda for what the UK should do about it. They will be joined on the Panel by Rajeeb Dey, founder of the English Secondary Students Association and previous President of the Oxford University Entrepreneurs Club, and Alastair Wilson, Chief Executive of the School for Social Entrepreneurs. The event will be chaired by Richard Halkett, Executive Director of Policy & Research at NESTA.

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